Audio Tools

1. SoundCloud leads, on 37% of the sites using an audio tool, with Apple Music close behind on 27%.
2. Only 12 of the 264 audio tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.
3. Among sites launched in September, SonicPanel rose to #11 from #14 in August.

#	Movement	Tool	Country	Share	Bar	Sites	90 days
1	–	SoundCloud Audio streaming platform whose embedded player widgets appear on artist and music-blog sites.		37%		2,592
2	–	Apple Music Apple subscription music service whose embedded players and badge links appear on artist sites.		27%		1,879
3	–	Bandcamp Independent music marketplace and streaming service whose embedded album players appear on artist sites.		14%		1,016
4	–	Deezer Music streaming service. CDN at dzcdn.net serves album art and media assets.		4.6%		321
5	▲1	Mixcloud Streaming platform for DJ mixes, radio shows and podcasts with an embeddable player.		4.0%		285
6	▼1	Amazon Music Music streaming service from Amazon with embeddable player links.		3.9%		275
7	▼1	Apple Podcasts Apple's podcast directory and player, embeddable on third party sites.		2.6%		180
8	▲1	BeatStars Music marketplace and embeddable player for producers to sell and stream beats.		2.2%		153
9	–	iHeartRadio Radio and podcast streaming service whose episode player can be embedded on other sites.		1.7%		123
10	▲1	Centova Cast Internet radio stream hosting and management control panel software.		1.3%		91
11	▼1	Podbean Podcast hosting platform with an embeddable audio player.		1.2%		84
12	▼2	M Muses Radio Player Embeddable web player for internet radio streams.		1.0%		72
13	▲3	SonicPanel Radio hosting control panel for SHOUTcast and Icecast streams that supplies embeddable player widgets for station websites.		1.0%		69
14	▼1	Captivate Podcast hosting platform with an embeddable audio player.		0.9%		62
15	▲3	TuneIn Internet radio directory and streaming service with an embeddable player.		0.9%		62

Share is of the 7,051 sites using an audio tool; a site can use more than one. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days. Showing the top 15 of 264.

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